What happened last night was a rarity for Kershaw. It was the eighth time in his career he's allowed unearned runs to score, and the four unearned were easily the most he's ever allowed in a game.

Coming into the contest, through 104 career games (102 starts), Kershaw had allowed just 10 unearned runs in his career.

Jesse Radin of BaseballPress.com wrote in February that the average starter's percentage of unearned runs is 8 percent. Kershaw's is 6.1 percent. This one is a little dated (2004), but Dan Agonistes looked at all starting pitchers since 1960 and found the unearned run percentage was 10.2 percent. So when Kershaw gives up unearned runs, it's news.

Kershaw's 2.88 ERA is the lowest it's been since May 29 (2.62). And since (somewhat) calling him (and other starters) out for his lack of innings and pitches per start, he's thrown an average of 107 pitches per start, including three complete games. His pitches per start is up to 103.6 from 100.8 through his May 28 start. I think it's quite obvious Kershaw reads this blog and took my criticism to heart.

Jerry Sands and Rubby De La Rosa were ineligible for these lists, or they surely would have made each list (Gordon might have been ineligible for Law and Goldstein's lists). In fact, Law said in his chat De La Rosa would have been in the Top 20-25.